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SUMMARY:The Shadow Catchers: 150 years of Arizona Photography
DESCRIPTION:For more than a century and a half some of the world’s best photographers focused their lenses on Arizona. In addition to the renowned Edward S. Curtis\, Kate Cory lived with the Hopi and represented them in photographs and on canvas\, while C. S. Fly gave us the famous Geronimo pictures. In the 20th century Josef Muench’s pictures brought the movies to Monument Valley\, Dorothea Lange captured Dust Bowl families\, Barry Goldwater depicted Navajo and Hopi culture\, and Ansel Adams glorified Arizona’s skies\, canyons\, and mesas. This presentation’s powerful images make the land and its people come alive. \nJim Turner worked with more than 70 museums across the state before retiring from the Arizona Historical Society. He co-authored the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona Story\, and his pictorial history\, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State\, was a 2012 Southwest Books of the Year selection. Jim moved to Tucson in 1951\, earned a M.A. in U.S. history in 1999\, and has been presenting Arizona history for more than forty years. Jim is an author/editor for Rio Nuevo Publishers\, author of The Mighty Colorado from the Glaciers to the Gulf and Four Corners USA: Wonders of the American Southwest.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-shadow-catchers-150-years-of-arizona-photography-5/
LOCATION:Agave Library\, 23550 N. 36th Ave.\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85310\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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SUMMARY:Honky Tonks\, Brothels and Mining Camps: Entertainment in Old Arizona
DESCRIPTION:In pioneer Arizona\, among the best places to experience the performing arts were in the mining towns. Striking it rich meant having disposable income\, and miners\, like the well-heeled of the Gilded Age\, wanted to demonstrate their sophistication with culture. From the early popular music of ragtime and minstrelsy during the forming of these communities\, evolved orchestras\, opera and glee clubs—all in hamlets like Tombstone. Dr. Craváth shares stories and music of a time when performing live was the only way to enjoy the arts. \nJay Craváth\, Ph.D. is a composer\, writer\, and scholar in the field of music and Indigenous studies. He crafts programs from these interests into interactive discussions that include stories\, musical performance\, and illustrations/photography. One of his most recent publication is Iretaba: Mohave Chief and American Diplomat. Dr. Craváth will begin an Arizona tour in late May of 2017 for his latest album: Songs for Ancient Days. \nDan Shilling is the former executive director of Arizona Humanities\, where he worked for nearly 20 years. Since leaving AH\, Shilling has co-directed three NEH summer institutes on environmental ethics\, given dozens of presentations on place-based economic development\, and authored or edited several publications\, including Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Methods for Environmental Sustainability(Cambridge 2018). A former high school teacher\, Dan holds a PhD in literature from ASU. He has served on dozens of boards and commissions. To acknowledge his many contributions to the state\, ASU presented him its most prestigious honor\, the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/honky-tonks-brothels-and-mining-camps-entertainment-in-old-arizona-15/
LOCATION:Church of the Nazarene\, 55 Rojo Dr\, Sedona\, 86351
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200115T183000
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SUMMARY:Coded Messages and Songs of the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Communication and secrecy were key to the successful operation of the Underground Railroad. Safety was more important than quickness. Both fugitive slaves and members of the Underground Railroad learned to code and decode hidden messages\, and to disguise signs to avoid capture. There were code names for routes and code numbers for towns. A quilt hanging on a clothesline with a house and a smoking chimney among its designs indicated a safe house. The song\, “Follow the Drinking Gourd” served as directions to Canada. Using storytelling\, activities and songs\, this presentation will depict the ingenuity and resiliency used by those involved in the Underground Railroad to help over 100\,000 slaves escape to freedom between 1810 and 1850. \nDr. Tamika Sanders is an entrepreneur who decided to become an educator to help address the lack of minority faculty in higher education\, and serve as a role model for minority students who rarely see people of color in academia. Through her company Savvy Pen\, Dr. Sanders prides herself on working with schools to build inclusive classrooms\, conducting multicultural training for educators\, and creating interactive programs that incorporate arts learning to bridge cultural and socioeconomic divides. She hopes to continue using the arts to break barriers\, unite people\, and create social change.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/coded-messages-and-songs-of-the-underground-railroad-2/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200119T153000
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SUMMARY:“Hyenas in Petticoats”–How Women Struggled Against Every Dirty Trick in the Books to Win the Vote!
DESCRIPTION:As we celebrate the 100th birthday of the 19th Amendment in 2020\, it’s time to look back at the enormous effort it took for women to be granted full citizenship and the vote. History has downplayed suffrage\, as if it were just a footnote in American history\, when in fact\, it was the nation’s largest civil rights movement. Western women got the vote long before their Eastern sisters\, but don’t dare tell an Arizona suffragette that she had it easy. Arizona had its own dirty tricks. Jana exposes it all—the heroines\, the heroes and the haters. \nJana Bommersbach is one of Arizona’s most honored and respected journalists. She has won accolades in every facet of her career— investigative reporter\, magazine columnist\, television commentator and author of nationally acclaimed books. She currently writes for True West magazine\, digging up the true stories behind the popular myths\, with an emphasis on Arizona’s real history and women of the Old West. Her insight\, knowledge and wit produce exuberant\, riveting speeches that always garner rave reviews.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/hyenas-in-petticoats-how-women-struggled-against-every-dirty-trick-in-the-books-to-win-the-vote-3/
LOCATION:Prescott Public Library\, 215 E. Goodwin St.\, Prescott\, AZ\, 86303\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200120T190000
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SUMMARY:The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:Before AD 1500\, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4\,000 years before present\, and irrigation systems were developed in our state at least 3\,500 years ago – several hundred years before irrigation was established in ancient Mexico. This presentation by archaeologist Allen Dart provides an overview of ancient irrigation systems in the southern Southwest and discusses irrigation’s implications for understanding social complexity. \nAllen Dart is a Registered Professional Archaeologist Registered Professional Archaeologist who has worked in Arizona and New Mexico since 1975 and has been an Arizona Humanities speaker since 1997. He is the former executive director of Tucson’s nonprofit Old Pueblo Archaeology Center\, which he founded in 1993 to provide educational and scientific programs in archaeology\, history\, and cultures. Al has received the Arizona Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission Award in Public Archaeology\, the Arizona Archaeological Society’s Professional Archaeologist of the Year Award\, and the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society’s Victor R. Stoner Award for his efforts to bring archaeology and history to the public.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-antiquity-of-irrigation-in-the-southwest-3/
LOCATION:IMG_0453
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200121T130000
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SUMMARY:Honky Tonks\, Brothels and Mining Camps: Entertainment in Old Arizona
DESCRIPTION:In pioneer Arizona\, among the best places to experience the performing arts were in the mining towns. Striking it rich meant having disposable income\, and miners\, like the well-heeled of the Gilded Age\, wanted to demonstrate their sophistication with culture. From the early popular music of ragtime and minstrelsy during the forming of these communities\, evolved orchestras\, opera and glee clubs—all in hamlets like Tombstone. Dr. Craváth shares stories and music of a time when performing live was the only way to enjoy the arts. \nJay Craváth\, Ph.D. is a composer\, writer\, and scholar in the field of music and Indigenous studies. He crafts programs from these interests into interactive discussions that include stories\, musical performance\, and illustrations/photography. One of his most recent publication is Iretaba: Mohave Chief and American Diplomat. Dr. Craváth will begin an Arizona tour in late May of 2017 for his latest album: Songs for Ancient Days. \nDan Shilling is the former executive director of Arizona Humanities\, where he worked for nearly 20 years. Since leaving AH\, Shilling has co-directed three NEH summer institutes on environmental ethics\, given dozens of presentations on place-based economic development\, and authored or edited several publications\, including Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Methods for Environmental Sustainability(Cambridge 2018). A former high school teacher\, Dan holds a PhD in literature from ASU. He has served on dozens of boards and commissions. To acknowledge his many contributions to the state\, ASU presented him its most prestigious honor\, the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/honky-tonks-brothels-and-mining-camps-entertainment-in-old-arizona-14/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200121T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200121T160000
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SUMMARY:For the Love of Turquoise
DESCRIPTION:Turquoise has a long standing tradition amongst Native cultures of the Southwest\, holding special significance and profound meanings to specific individual tribes. Even before the more contemporary tradition of combining silver with turquoise\, cultures throughout the southwest used turquoise in necklaces\, earrings\, mosaics\, fetishes\, medicine pouches\, and made bracelets of basketry stems lacquered with piñon resin and inlaid turquoise. Found on six continents across the world\, turquoise forms in arid regions through the process of water seeping through rock and interacting with copper\, aluminum\, and iron deposits. In the southwest\, used decoratively for millennia\, this iconic art form has a compelling story all its own. This talk explores a long tradition of distinctive cultural styles\, history\, and transition of this wondrous stone. \nCarrie Cannon is a member of the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma and is also of Oglala Lakota descent. She has a B.S. in Wildlife Biology\, and an M.S. in Resource Management. She began working for the Hualapai Tribe of Peach Springs\, Arizona in 2005 where she began the creation of an intergenerational ethnobotany program for the Hualapai community. She is currently employed as an Ethnobotanist for the Hualapai Department of Cultural Resources. She administers a number of projects promoting the intergenerational teaching of Hualapai ethnobotanical knowledge working towards preservation and revitalization to ensure tribal ethnobotanical knowledge persists as a living practice and tradition.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/for-the-love-of-turquoise-2/
LOCATION:IMG_0038
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200121T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200121T193000
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SUMMARY:How We Survived Prohibition (100 Years Ago)
DESCRIPTION:Arizonans often didn’t play well with others where they’d lived before\, and that made them well-suited to survive a society that (supposedly) didn’t serve alcohol. Hear some of the stories of how places you can still drink today made it through the speakeasy era… as well as what makes some of our other historic watering holes memorable besides what’s slid down the bar. These include what thirst for spirits inspired in Arizonans\, and the colorful\, creative rascals and rakes who were drawn here. What some of them did here will surprise you. \nLisa Schnebly-Heidinger believes everyone is given certain puzzle pieces to contribute to the overall picture of the world\, and that hers involves collecting and sharing stories. She loves discovering bright bits of Arizona history that combine with others to make kaleidoscope images\, sometimes surprising and always interesting. Working on her 11th and 12th books concurrently about aspects of her beloved native state\, Lisa serves on the Arizona Trail Board of Directors\, on the Rural Activation Innovation Network Board of Directors\, and is an NAU President’s Associate.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/how-we-survived-prohibition-100-years-ago/
LOCATION:Screenshot-2024-09-30-122038
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191220T161502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T161502Z
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SUMMARY:Chiles & Chocolate: Sweet and Spicy Foods in the American West
DESCRIPTION:Come have a taste of the rich and savory history of these food favorites\, explore how early peoples used them\, and how they have evolved and spread to all corners of the world. Food is a portal into culture and can convey a range of cultural meaning including occasion\, social status\, ethnicity\, and wealth depending on the social context. Discover how chiles and chocolate became identity markers in gender roles and relationships\, essential in rituals and religious customs\, popular in aesthetic fashions and lifestyles\, and how they changed through time and space. \nChris Glenn and Sandy Sunseri are docents at the Museum of Northern Arizona and have been speaking about the land and people of the Colorado Plateau since 2012. In-depth research and related interviews have resulted in presentations to local social and educational groups\, museum groups\, public venues such as the Riordan Mansion State Park in Flagstaff\, and AZ Speaks locations throughout Arizona. Some topics are presented in costumes of the time period\, and in every case with a thorough exploration of the events and personalities of the time from multiple points of view.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/chiles-chocolate-sweet-and-spicy-foods-in-the-american-west/
LOCATION:Arizona Western College / Parker Learning Center\, 1109 Geronimo Avenue\, Parker\, AZ\, 85344\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200122T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191220T161919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T161919Z
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SUMMARY:Impeachment: The U.S. Constitutional Process and How It Works
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. Constitution set in place a process for removing from office elected and non-elective executive and judicial officers of the United States: that process is commonly called impeachment. It is a power of the national legislature\, the Congress; and both the House of Representatives and the Senate play roles\, separately but in coordination. On occasion the Chief Justice of the United States also plays a role. Understanding the impeachment power and how the process operates has recently become much discussed. So a discussion of the bases and principles of impeachment appears particularly appropriate. \nThomas J. Davis is an historian\, lawyer\, and professor emeritus at Arizona State University\, Tempe\, where he taught U.S. constitutional and legal history. He taught also as a visiting professor of law at the ASU College of Law. He received his PhD in U.S. history from Columbia University in the City of New York and his JD cum laude from New York’s University at Buffalo School of Law. Among his more than 50 scholarly articles and books\, is his Plessy v. Ferguson(2012)\, a volume in ABC-CLIO’s Landmarks of the American Mosaic series.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/impeachment-the-u-s-constitutional-process-and-how-it-works/
LOCATION:Coolidge Public Library\, 160 W. Central Avenue\, Coolidge\, AZ\, 85128\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200123T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200123T170000
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SUMMARY:Theodore Roosevelt Slept Here
DESCRIPTION:Theodore Roosevelt exhibited a greater influence on Arizona than perhaps any other president. He was the first sitting president to visit Arizona\, employed an executive order to preserve the Grand Canyon\, established a variety of wildlife refuges and reclamation projects\, and enjoyed outdoor recreation in the area. This program will share Roosevelt’s widespread influence in Arizona\, and also explore some stories of dubious accuracy that inevitably sprout from such a larger-than-life character. \nKevin Schindler is an award-winning educator and writer who has worked for more than 20 years at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Schindler was sheriff of the Flagstaff Corral of Westerners for 14 years and a board member of the Flagstaff Festival of Science for 16 years. Combining a dual passion for history and science\, he has presented hundreds of educational programs\, authored 6 books\, written more than 500 magazine and newspaper articles\, and contributes a bi-weekly astronomy column for the Arizona Daily Sun. In 2019 Kevin was awarded the Friends of the Humanities Award by Arizona Humanities.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/theodore-roosevelt-slept-here-5/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200123T203000
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SUMMARY:The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) of WWII
DESCRIPTION:During World War II over one thousand women served as Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)\, freeing male pilots for combat roles at a critical time during the war. The WASP ferried planes from factories to embarkation points; performed engineer test flying of repaired aircraft and did target towing for gunnery training. By the spring of 1944\, every P-51 Mustang flown in combat had already been flown by a WASP. This presentation shares their stories as fliers\, patriots\, and women who had to fight for the right to be called veterans. \nNatalie J. Stewart-Smith has been an educator for over 25 years and taught at the elementary\, high school\, and college levels. As a former Army officer and historian\, she is interested in women’s contributions to the military\, particularly those who served as military aviators.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-women-airforce-service-pilots-wasp-of-wwii-5/
LOCATION:Mountain View Club House\, 38759 South Mountainview Boulevard\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85739\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200123T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200123T203000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T120856Z
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SUMMARY:The Shadow Catchers: 150 years of Arizona Photography
DESCRIPTION:For more than a century and a half some of the world’s best photographers focused their lenses on Arizona. In addition to the renowned Edward S. Curtis\, Kate Cory lived with the Hopi and represented them in photographs and on canvas\, while C. S. Fly gave us the famous Geronimo pictures. In the 20th century Josef Muench’s pictures brought the movies to Monument Valley\, Dorothea Lange captured Dust Bowl families\, Barry Goldwater depicted Navajo and Hopi culture\, and Ansel Adams glorified Arizona’s skies\, canyons\, and mesas. This presentation’s powerful images make the land and its people come alive. \nJim Turner worked with more than 70 museums across the state before retiring from the Arizona Historical Society. He co-authored the 4th-grade textbook The Arizona Story\, and his pictorial history\, Arizona: Celebration of the Grand Canyon State\, was a 2012 Southwest Books of the Year selection. Jim moved to Tucson in 1951\, earned a M.A. in U.S. history in 1999\, and has been presenting Arizona history for more than forty years. Jim is an author/editor for Rio Nuevo Publishers\, author of The Mighty Colorado from the Glaciers to the Gulf and Four Corners USA: Wonders of the American Southwest.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-shadow-catchers-150-years-of-arizona-photography-6/
LOCATION:John Mack
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200127T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200127T100000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191220T171728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T171728Z
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SUMMARY:Coded Messages and Songs of the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Communication and secrecy were key to the successful operation of the Underground Railroad. Safety was more important than quickness. Both fugitive slaves and members of the Underground Railroad learned to code and decode hidden messages\, and to disguise signs to avoid capture. There were code names for routes and code numbers for towns. A quilt hanging on a clothesline with a house and a smoking chimney among its designs indicated a safe house. The song\, “Follow the Drinking Gourd” served as directions to Canada. Using storytelling\, activities and songs\, this presentation will depict the ingenuity and resiliency used by those involved in the Underground Railroad to help over 100\,000 slaves escape to freedom between 1810 and 1850. \nDr. Tamika Sanders is an entrepreneur who decided to become an educator to help address the lack of minority faculty in higher education\, and serve as a role model for minority students who rarely see people of color in academia. Through her company Savvy Pen\, Dr. Sanders prides herself on working with schools to build inclusive classrooms\, conducting multicultural training for educators\, and creating interactive programs that incorporate arts learning to bridge cultural and socioeconomic divides. She hopes to continue using the arts to break barriers\, unite people\, and create social change.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/coded-messages-and-songs-of-the-underground-railroad/
LOCATION:AZ
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200128T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200128T140000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191220T174458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T174458Z
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SUMMARY:Picturing Arizona: Celebrating Early Arizona Women Artists\, Writers\, Photographers\, and Songsters
DESCRIPTION:Artistry in its many forms makes us think\, sing\, dance\, and enjoy the wonders of our surroundings. The arts also allow us to document the lives of our ancestors and learn from the past. Some of the finest early Arizona artists were women who wrote\, painted\, photographed\, and vocalized the magnificence and history of their communities and their circumstances. Painters provided visual images\, while writers pictured the west with their prose and poetry. Singing voices soared above the highest mountains\, and photographers imprinted vivid pictures that made the landscape stand still before being swept away by time. This presentation celebrates women who tendered these creative legacies\, leaving reminders of our past for future generations to enjoy and reflect. \nJan Cleere is an award-winning author\, historian\, and lecturer who writes extensively about the desert southwest\, particularly the people who first settled the territory. She is a magna cum laude graduate of ASU West with a degree is American Studies\, and the author of five historical nonfiction books about the people who first ventured west. She lectures around the state on early pioneers who were instrumental in colonizing and civilizing Arizona Territory. Jan writes a monthly column for Tucson’s Arizona Daily Star\, “Western Women\,” detailing the lives of some of Arizona’s early amazing women. Her freelance work appears in national and regional publications.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/picturing-arizona-celebrating-early-arizona-women-artists-writers-photographers-and-songsters-2/
LOCATION:The Palazzo\, 6250 N. 19th Avenue\, Phoenix\, AZ\, 85015\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200128T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200128T160000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191220T172044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191220T172044Z
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SUMMARY:From “Chief” to Code Talker: Four Profiles of the Navajo Code Talkers
DESCRIPTION:During WWII a group of young Navajo men enlisted in the Marines without knowing that they would be called on to develop a secret code against the Japanese military. This select group of Code Talkers devised a Navajo language code that was accurate\, quick\, never broken\, and saved many American lives. This talk profiles 4 Code Talkers who reflect on their lives growing up on the Navajo Nation homeland\, their military service as Code Talkers\, and the personal and spiritual costs of war that many struggled with after the war. They returned home without fanfare to continued poverty and lack of economic opportunity\, yet persevered and overcame obstacles that helped change the Navajo Nation and their communities. Their stories are told with poignancy that reflect their resiliency and self-determination. A PowerPoint presentation accompanies this talk. \nLaura Tohe is Diné. She is Sleepy Rock clan born for the Bitter Water clan. She holds a Ph.D. in Indigenous American Literature. A librettist and an award-winning poet\, her books include No Parole Today\, Meeting the Spirit of Water\, Sister Nations\, Tséyi\, Deep in the Rock\, and Code Talker Stories. Her commissioned libretto\, Enemy Slayer: A Navajo Oratorio\, was performed by the Phoenix Symphony. Her new work\, Nahasdzaan in the Glittering World\, makes its world premiere in France 2019. She is Professor Emerita with Distinction at Arizona State University and is the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate for 2015-2019.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/from-chief-to-code-talker-four-profiles-of-the-navajo-code-talkers-3/
LOCATION:IMG_0038
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200130T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191220T174836Z
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SUMMARY:The History of the (Berlin) Wall: German Experiences for Arizona
DESCRIPTION:The issue of the US/Mexico border\, or any border today\, is of central importance. This presentation takes the history of the Berlin Wall as a starting point to address what walls have done to people and cultures throughout time. Can the Berlin Wall help Arizonans understand the critical issues better? Even if that might not be the case\, the history of that ominous wall and the cultural implications deserve our close attention. \nDr. Albrecht Classen is a university distinguished professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona – where he teaches and researches the European Middle Ages\, the early modern age\, and modern German-speaking lands\, focusing on literature\, the visual arts\, politics\, philosophy\, and religion. He has published more than 100 scholarly books\, such as On the Forest in Medieval Literature(2015) and Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval Literature(2018). He has given lectures all over the state of Arizona\, the nation\, and globally. Over the last 30 years\, he has received numerous teaching\, research\, and service awards\, and has been repeatedly nominated for the Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar Award.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-history-of-the-berlin-wall-german-experiences-for-arizona/
LOCATION:Chandler Museum\, 300 S. Chandler Village Drive\, Chandler\, AZ\, 85226\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200130T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20200130T203000
DTSTAMP:20260407T200547
CREATED:20191230T122714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191230T122714Z
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SUMMARY:The History of the (Berlin) Wall: German Experiences for Arizona
DESCRIPTION:The issue of the US/Mexico border\, or any border today\, is of central importance. This presentation takes the history of the Berlin Wall as a starting point to address what walls have done to people and cultures throughout time. Can the Berlin Wall help Arizonans understand the critical issues better? Even if that might not be the case\, the history of that ominous wall and the cultural implications deserve our close attention. \nDr. Albrecht Classen is a university distinguished professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona – where he teaches and researches the European Middle Ages\, the early modern age\, and modern German-speaking lands\, focusing on literature\, the visual arts\, politics\, philosophy\, and religion. He has published more than 100 scholarly books\, such as On the Forest in Medieval Literature(2015) and Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval Literature(2018). He has given lectures all over the state of Arizona\, the nation\, and globally. Over the last 30 years\, he has received numerous teaching\, research\, and service awards\, and has been repeatedly nominated for the Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar Award.
URL:https://azhumanities.org/event/the-history-of-the-berlin-wall-german-experiences-for-arizona-2/
LOCATION:Chandler Museum\, 300 S. Chandler Village Drive\, Chandler\, AZ\, 85226\, United States
CATEGORIES:AZ Speaks
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